Finished THE LATE AMERICANS by @blgtylr. I’m tingling. I don’t know what to say. I’ll try. He makes what I think of as mundane in my life feel as big as it feels to me as I’m living it. It’s modern & as timeless as Anna Karenina. Will read many times in my life if I am lucky.
The people who de-escalated the scene were random neighbors and onlookers and they were treated by the officers on the scene with derision. At one point some folks were asking about police training.